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The members of the women's rights group which has staged protests against Russia's detention of the
feminist punk band Pussy Riot around Europe, did not explain why they wanted to protest inside the mosque.

The women were reportedly from Egypt, Tunisia and Sweden, although police were not immediately able to confirm their identities or nationalities.

Last week bare-breasted members of the feminist group Femen targeted the motorcade of Tunisian Prime Minister Ali Larayedh to protest the jailing of group members in Tunis.

As the Tunisian motorcade left following a visit to European Union headquarters, two women climbed atop a diplomatic car and two others chanted slogans.

Security officials dragged the women off the car, and all four ran away from the scene.

Earlier this month three of the group's activists were sentenced to four months in prison last week after staging a topless protest in the country's capital demanding the release of a Tunisian FEMEN activist.

Determined: The women were reportedly from Egypt, Tunisia and Sweden, although police were not immediately able to confirm their identities or nationalities

Marguerite Stern and Pauline Hillier, from France, and Josephine Markmann, from Germany, were arrested on 29 May as they protested bare-chested in front of the Tunis Court building.

The trio had approached the entrance to the ministry wearing coats which they took off, revealing naked torsos scrawled with 'Breasts Feed Revolution'.

Wearing just jean shorts, the women chanted in English 'Free Amina' and 'Women's spring is coming' as people in the crowd attempted to cover them.

The women then climbed up on the gates of the Justice Ministry until police pulled them down and hustled them shouting into the building as an angry crowd gathered.

A security guard grabs a Femen activist as she sits on the windshield of Tunisian Prime Minister's car as he leaves the EU commission building in Brussels